President Donald Trump says Democrats in Georgia are “failing” after a congressional election that’s now headed to a runoff.
Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old former congressional staffer, fell a few percentage points shy of an outright victory amid an 18-candidate scramble in Georgia’s 6th District. Republican Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, finished a distant second, qualifying for the June 20 runoff.
Trump tweeted Wednesday: “Dems failed in Kansas and are now failing in Georgia. Great job Karen Handel! It is now Hollywood vs. Georgia on June 20th.”
The Hollywood reference follows Trump’s previous assertion that the media is backing Ossoff.
Last week, Republicans pulled out a victory in Kansas in a special election to fill the seat of former Rep. Mike Pompeo, now CIA director.
(AP)
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This article fails to report that Ossoff (the Democratic candidate) got 48% of the vote. That’s more than Trump got in his election.
I have no idea who will win the runoff, but Ossoff is at least close to a win, hardly “failing.”
Not only did he trounce republicans by far, there were other democrats in the race as well that probably made the less than 2 point difference in coming short of the necessary 50%, nothing to do with republican “victory”